Word: detract
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...week, in Manhattan to display the new spring and "cruise wear" fashions, Florence Eiseman explained why. "I believe," she said, busy knitting something white and inscrutable, "that all children are beautiful. Their skin, their eyes, their legs and arms and hair are what you should see first. Nothing must detract from them." Accordingly, Eiseman dresses generally come in solid colors or in a simple check or stripe. Trademarks of the line are special appliqued forms: sailboats, birds, daisies...
Most of these faults are picayune and do not detract significantly from this excellent production. Unfortunately, Arrabel's one-acter fares much worse It is a light anti-war fantasy, which does have its high points...
This is not to detract from MacLean's accomplishment, for he most certainly has the knack, and he is both moving and horrifying. He makes excellent use of a stammer as a verbal pivot on which to make some of the many sudden changes of mood required of him. Furiously angry, he catches on a word, his hand moves to his mouth, and his assertiveness turns into fear. At other times he freezes for a moment, before delivering a pathetic non sequitur...
...Dirksen has given warning that future Republican amendments will not be so mild. While most of his proposed amendments to the fair employment title either improve or at least do not detract from the House bill, one may spark a difficult struggle. Sen. Dirksen intends to ask that the burden of prosecuting violations under the title be put on individuals and state agencies rather than on the Federal government. A complaint would have to be made first to the state agency, which would be allowed 90 days to act. Only then could the proposed Federal Commission be brought into...
...into a coherent fugue. Nonetheless, her characters are engaged in a sometimes sensitive search for meaning in their drab lives. Fred Willkie does a particularly fine job as Jake, a young garbage collector. Joel DeMott's performance as the waitress is fulled with nuance and her accent doesn't detract from her acting. Diane Kagan, who plays Gloria, one of the cooks, is less successful with the New York vulgar tongue, but Jaye Schulman as Lily, the other cook, is often compelling. William Roberts and Peter McKenzie are perhaps hurt more by the script than lack of effort. While both...